Palmetto State School Counselor Association (PSSCA) Scholarship is offering four $1000 scholarships to high school seniors, must be a permanent resident of SouthCarolina, and must plan to attend a post-secondary institution during the 2021-2022 school year. The application is attached and available at the following link https://pssca.schoolcounselorawards.org/scoy/other-awards
Deadline to apply: December 3
Paper application can be found here
The purpose of the Advocate of the Year Award is to recognize persons who have demonstrated their belief in and support of school counseling programs that have had an impact on counselors and their students at the local, state, or national level.
For more information, download the application here.
Applications are due December 15, 2021.
It is that time of year again to find our SC School Counselor of the Year.
If you know of a deserving counselor that you would like to nominate, please complete the nomination form found at https://pssca.schoolcounselorawards.org/scoy/nominate.
All applications must be submitted by December 10.
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President-Elect - Clayton Henke
Lexington School District One
Post-Secondary VP - Dodie Limberg
The University of SC
Middle VP - Matthew Smith
Berkely County School District
The Palmetto State School Counselor Association is pleased to announce our 2021 High School and Overall School Counselor of the Year, Elesha Ellison
Ms. Ellison currently serves as the Lead School Counselor at Silver Bluff High School in Aiken County. Sharon Worley, Aiken County Public Schools’ coordinator for counseling and career services states that Ellison is, “the epitome of what we should all aspire to be as professional school counselors.” Ellison will go on to represent the state for the ASCA School Counselor of the Year.
The purpose of the School Counselor of the Year Award is to recognize persons who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to school counseling and have had an impact on the profession and their students at the local, state, or national level.
The Palmetto State School Counselor Association (PSSCA) is a statewide nonprofit organization. PSSCA helps advance the profession of school counseling by assisting South Carolina school counselors with guiding their students toward academic achievement, career planning and social/emotional development in order to help today’s students become tomorrow’s productive, contributing members of society.
The Palmetto State School Counselor Association is pleased to announce our 2021 Middle School South Carolina Counselor of the Year, Brandy Ludlam
Mrs. Ludlam currently serves as Director of School Counseling at Carolina Springs Middle School in Lexington School District One. A current RAMP recipient, Mrs. Ludlam, “mak(es) a positive difference in the lives of our students, their parents, and in the community through leadership, collaboration, and management of the program,” states Dr. Brice Cockfield, Principal of Carolina Springs Middle School. She also currently serves on the governing board of the Palmetto State School Counselor Association.
The Palmetto State School Counselor Association is pleased to announce our 2021 School Counselor Advocate of the Year, Sherrie Beaver
Mrs. Beaver currently serves at the South Carolina Department of Education in the Office of Student Intervention Services as the School Counseling Personnel Liaison. She advocates tirelessly on behalf of school counselors across the state ensuring that we have a voice in legislative developments that have direct impacts on our profession. She also currently serves as a governing board member of the Palmetto State School Counselor Association.
The purpose of the Advocate of the Year Award is to recognize persons who have demonstrated their beliefs in and support of school counseling programs that have had an impact on counselors and their students at the local, state, or national level.
At the end of of our Annual Conference, PSSCA announced our scholarship and mini grant winners.
Those winners were:
Scholarship Winners
Amber Burton - Dreher High School
Jackson Kelsey - Blue Ridge High School
Saniya Mack - Edisto High School
Macy McCoy - River Bluff High School
Savana Schwanda - River Bluff High School
Mini Grant Winners
Susan Hammond - Andrew Jackson Middle School
Caitlyn Grigg - Campobello-Grambling School
Alisha Kowsky and Sarah Vann - Low Country Leadership Charter School
Erin Clarke - West Pelzer Elementary School
Congratulations to all of our winners!
Anna Duvall, Director of Counseling at Lexington High School and Dr. Crissy Roddy, Director of Counseling at White Knoll High School co-authored the book, Managing Anxiety in School Settings.
Managing Anxiety in School Settings dives into the growing topic of anxiety and its implications on students’ emotional and academic wellbeing, providing key insights into how to enable students to be successful inside and outside of the classroom.
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